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1858 storiesLocomotion analysis of a quadruped interacting with the lunar granular surface
arXiv:2606.10273v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying legged robots in extra-terrestrial environments includes many challenges due to complex terrain intera…
What Matters in Orchestrating Robot Policies: A Systematic Study of Hierarchical VLA Agents
arXiv:2606.10267v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hierarchical vision-language-action (Hi-VLA) systems have emerged as a promising paradigm for complex robot mani…
Efficient-WAM: A 1B-Parameter World-Action Model with Low-Cost Future Imagination
arXiv:2606.10040v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World-Action Models (WAMs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for embodied control by coupling future visual p…
Robotic Nonprehensile Object Transportation with a Hanging Tray
arXiv:2606.10039v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We consider the nonprehensile object transportation task known as the waiter's problem, in which a robot must mo…
GHOST: Hierarchical Sub-Goal Policies for Generalizing Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2606.10025v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present GHOST, a framework for learning visuomotor manipulation policies that generalize beyond the training …
Uncertainty-Aware Motion Planning for Autonomous Driving in Mixed Traffic Environment
arXiv:2606.09958v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In mixed-traffic environments where autonomous and human-driven vehicles may co-exist, motion planning for auton…
Neuromorphic Reinforcement Learning for Quadruped Locomotion Control on Uneven Terrain
arXiv:2605.09595v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has enabled robust quadruped locomotion over complex terrain, but most lea…
RoboGPT-R1: Enhancing Robot Task Planning with Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2510.14828v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Improving the reasoning capabilities of embodied agents is crucial for robots to complete complex huma…
BadRobot: Jailbreaking Embodied LLM Agents in the Physical World
arXiv:2407.20242v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Embodied AI represents systems where AI is integrated into physical entities. Large Language Model (LL…
Deterministic Execution of ROS 2 Applications via Lingua Franca
arXiv:2606.09203v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The Robot Operating System 2 (ROS 2) is a widely used middleware for robotic systems, characterized by a pub…
HANDOFF: Humanoid Agentic Task-Space Whole-Body Control via Distilled Complementary Teachers
arXiv:2606.06493v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: For a humanoid robot to be deployed in the real world, the choice of command space (i.e., the interface betw…
VOLT: Vision and Language Trajectory Segmentation for Faster-than-Demonstration Policies
arXiv:2606.06323v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Humans often take longer to demonstrate a task than a robot would need to execute it. Rather than learning t…
Discrete-WAM: Unified Discrete Vision-Action Token Editing for World-Policy Learning
arXiv:2606.05645v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous driving requires reasoning about how ego actions shape future world evolution, rather than merely…
CADENCE: Predicting Realized MAPF Execution Time Beyond Sum of Costs
arXiv:2606.04746v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) algorithms are increasingly used to plan motion for robot teams in industria…
CoRe-MoE: Contrastive Reweighted Mixture of Experts for Multi-Terrain Humanoid Locomotion with Gait Adaptation
arXiv:2606.04718v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Humans primarily rely on walking and running to traverse complex terrains. Similarly, humanoid robots should…
AgenticRL: Self-Refining Agentic Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Conditioned UAV Navigation
arXiv:2606.03963v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Deep reinforcement learning has shown strong potential for enabling autonomous robots to learn complex navig…
BiPneu: Design and Control of a Bipolar-Pressure Pneumatic System for Soft Robots
arXiv:2605.12804v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Positive-negative pressure regulation is critical to soft robotic actuators, enabling large motion ranges an…
RobotEQ: Transitioning from Passive Intelligence to Active Intelligence in Embodied AI
arXiv:2605.06234v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Embodied AI is a prominent research topic in both academia and industry. Current research centers on complet…
Online Self-Training for Co-Adaptation in Hierarchical Diffusion Policies
arXiv:2603.05291v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Hierarchical policies decompose language-conditioned long-horizon robotic manipulation into a high-level pla…
TaCarla: A comprehensive benchmarking dataset for end-to-end autonomous driving
arXiv:2602.23499v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Collecting a high-quality dataset is a critical task that demands meticulous attention to detail, as overloo…
CableRobotGraphSim: A Graph Neural Network for Modeling Partially Observable Cable-Driven Robot Dynamics
arXiv:2602.21331v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: General-purpose simulators have accelerated the development of robots. Traditional simulators based on first…
Scalable and General Whole-Body Control for Cross-Humanoid Locomotion
arXiv:2602.05791v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Learning-based whole-body controllers have become a key driver for humanoid robots, yet most existing approa…
Goal-oriented Communication for Fast and Robust Robotic Fault Detection and Recovery
arXiv:2601.18765v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous robotic systems are widely deployed in smart factories and operate in dynamic, uncertain, and hum…
Adaptive Sliding Mode Control for Vehicle Platoons with State-Dependent Friction Uncertainty
arXiv:2601.10724v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multi-robot formation control has various applications in domains such as vehicle troops, platoons, payload …
ObjSplat: Geometry-Aware Gaussian Surfels for Active Object Reconstruction
arXiv:2601.06997v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous high-fidelity object reconstruction is fundamental for creating digital assets and bridging the s…
MIND-V: Hierarchical World Model for Long-Horizon Robotic Manipulation with RL-based Physical Alignment
arXiv:2512.06628v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Scalable embodied intelligence is constrained by the scarcity of diverse, long-horizon robotic manipulation …
EM-Fall: Embodied mmWave Sensing for Day-and-Night Fall Detection on Humanoid Robots
arXiv:2606.11109v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Falls are one of the leading causes of injury and hospitalization among elderly individuals, making reliable fal…
Dexterous Point Policy: Learning Point-based Dexterous Hand Policies from Human Demonstrations
arXiv:2606.10614v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic foundation models pre-trained on human demonstration videos have shown promise, but a significant embodi…